Tesla can track all of their vehicles without charging station assistance. GM's On*Star also can. I wouldn't be surprised if many modern vehicles have this embedded in their electronics. After all, modern vehicles are said to be hackable and in one instance was alleged to have led to the death of a journalist on the trail of some naughty government behavior.
A lot of high end cars have "connected driver" packages, top of the range mercs, BMWs, and super-premium cars like Rolls Royce. Anything that takes a sim card will be logging location and other telemetry. You would expect Tesla to have it to allow software updates.
I wouldn't like it, I have a car with park assist and that makes me nervous because it means the steering wheel can be motorised by a hacker. I've never used it, but knowing the car could swerve itself at any time is not comforting.
A lot of newer cars are fully drive-by-wire and no mechanical controls are directly accessible by the driver. Accelerator pedal uses a rheostat, the steering wheel is an encoder that controls motors at the front wheels.
It’s gathered from charging stations.
Tesla can track all of their vehicles without charging station assistance. GM's On*Star also can. I wouldn't be surprised if many modern vehicles have this embedded in their electronics. After all, modern vehicles are said to be hackable and in one instance was alleged to have led to the death of a journalist on the trail of some naughty government behavior.
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A lot of high end cars have "connected driver" packages, top of the range mercs, BMWs, and super-premium cars like Rolls Royce. Anything that takes a sim card will be logging location and other telemetry. You would expect Tesla to have it to allow software updates. I wouldn't like it, I have a car with park assist and that makes me nervous because it means the steering wheel can be motorised by a hacker. I've never used it, but knowing the car could swerve itself at any time is not comforting.
A lot of newer cars are fully drive-by-wire and no mechanical controls are directly accessible by the driver. Accelerator pedal uses a rheostat, the steering wheel is an encoder that controls motors at the front wheels.
Drive by wire is so bad that racing sims work hard to replicate the "old" and proper way of steering.
I don't think I'll ever be a fan.
Didn't something like that happen to Tiger Woods?
Pfft! The car has a microphone to take voice commands. WTF else you think it’s used for? It to mention multiple cameras. Wake up folks!
Cameras are useful as mirrors, though obviously exploitable.
Best to have a camera on your car anyway (dash cam) due to all the craziness.